Trousers-supporter.



A. R. B RYTEP TROUSBRS SUPPOBTER.

APPLICATION I'IL'BD AUG. 2, 1910.

Patented May- 9, 1911.

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ASIBURY B. BRYTE, OF BELL-EVUE, PENNSYLVANIA.

TROUSERS-SUPPORTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 9, 1911.

Application filed August 2, 1910. Serial No. 575,069.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AsBUnY R. BRYTE, a citizen of the United States, and residing in the borough of Bellevue, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented or discovered new and useful Trousers-Supporters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention consists in a new and improved device or holder intended for use with the ordinary suspenders, when the latter are worn concealed under the shirt, for the support of the trousers. Thus a belt may be worn and the suspenders concealed but still-used to support the garment. Generally speaking the holder is formed with a back plate or portion which bears against the wearers inner garment or undershirt and body to keep the holder from turning, and a hook portion which engages the button-hole end of the suspender, passes through the shirt and engages either metal loops or eyes secured to the waist-band of the trousers or hooks into the material of the waistband itself.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a broken perspective showing my holder seated in the button-hole end of a pair of suspenders, and engaging the outer shirt and metal loop on the waist-band of the trousers; Fig. 2 is a vertical section illustrating the same elements except that the holder is shown hooked directly into the material of the waist-band of the trousers; Fig. 3 is a perspective showing the form of holder used in Figs. 1 and 2, and Fig. 4 is a similar view of a modification.

The following is a detailed description of the drawings. l1 represent the buttonhole ends or loops of a pair of suspenders. The holder, one of which is mounted in each of the six button-hole ends, is composed of a back plate 2 to the upper part of which is soldered or otherwise secured the shank of a hook 3. The material of the hook is bent upwardly and outwardly to form an upper loop 4 and then downwardly and inwardly to form an obliquely-extending shank 4 the lower end thereof being in proximity to the back 2 (or 2, in the form of device shown in Fig. 4), and then upwardly to form the hook-loop 5. The hook-loop 5 is by reason of the obliquity of the shank 4 preferably within the same vertical plane as the upper loop 4 so as to prevent the accidental catching in the clothes or hand of the wearer.

6 is the outer shirt of the wearer, under which the suspenders are concealed; 7 represents the trousers and 8 the waist-band of the same.

9-9 are the metal loops or eyes. In the use the holder is slipped into e11- gagement with the button-hole end of the suspenders by inserting the hook 3 through the button-hole, so that the back plate 2 will bear against the undershirt and body of the wearer to prevent the holder turning or slipping. The button-hole end 1 of the suspender will pass up into the interior of the upper loop 4 of the hook, as shown in the drawings. The hook is now pushed through the material of the outer shirt, 6, the shirt being bloused or fulled to the desired degree to provide a graceful hang to the garment and prevent tension on the shirt. The hook 3 is passed far enough through the shirt for the loop 4 of the hook to engage the material of the shirt which latter naturally works up against the Suspender end, as shown in the drawings. The hook-loop 5 of the hook 3 is now inserted in the metal loop 9 of the waistband of the trousers, thus supporting the trousers at that point. Six holders, as explained above, are used with a pair of suspenders, thus giving the conventional six points of suspension of the ordinary suspenders. If desired, the loops 9-9 may be dispensed with and the hook 3 inserted into the material of the waistband. However, I prefer to provide metal loops or eyes of any convenient type for the rear of the trousers as more convenient.

In Fig. 4 I show a modified form of the holder wherein a loop, 2 integral with the material of the hook 3 is substituted for the back plate 2.

\Vith my holders, the ordinaryv six point suspension suspenders of any type may be used, giving the maximum of comfort and at the same time apparently supporting the trousers by means of a belt. Many persons cannot wear a belt with comfort or safety, nor do they find the special types of suspenders intended to be worn beneath the shirt comfortable or eliicient, and thus are compelled to wear their suspenders exposed unless they retain their vests. My invention enables them to retain their comfortable method of trousers support, the only change being the wear of the suspenders beneath the outer shirt and the addition of my holders, which are cheap, eiticient and convenient.

Among the particular advantages of my invention may be named the following, inter lid. The device will hold the shirt-bosom smooth and firm, while all the tension is taken up by the suspenders so that the shirt cannot be torn. It can be used with a stiff or plaited bosom shirt as well as in the case of a soft bosom shirt. This enables the vest to be discarded and the shirt front maintained in a neat and flat contour, which is impossible where a belt alone is used.

lVh-at I desire to claim is A trouser-supporter adapted for use with suspenders supported beneath the wearers outer shirt, and comprising an expanded back bearing flatly against the wearers body to prevent turning or twisting of the supporter, an upper wire loop secured to the back and adapted to pass through the suspender-end and through the outer shirt, and formed by extending said Wire upward and, then, bending it downward and inward, to form an obliquely-extending shank, having its lower end in proximity to said back, preventing disengagement oi the outer shirt and the suspender-end from said upper loop, and a lower hook-loop terminating in an up ward-projecting, pointed prong, said upper loop and said lower hook-loop being in the same vertical plane.

Signed at Pittsburg, Pa,

August 1910.

ASBURY R. BRYTE.

this 1st day of Vitnesses ADAH M. MANN, EDWARD A. LAWRENCE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

